How to Setup Windows Live Writer with Umbraco 7

Matthew Skilton

8/15/2015 10:11:43 AM

UmbracoWeb Development

Distraction free writing is pretty important when putting together blog posts and I find live writer a pretty good tool to achieve this, means you don’t have your web browser open and aren’t inclined to jump around to other tabs. You could use another text edit but with being able to publish directly from live writer to Umbraco is pretty neat, also with the ability to upload images it's my number 1 choice for writing blog posts with Umbraco.

Install Tutorial

Prepare Umbraco for the pending install of live writer by going into Umbraco > Users then select your username and go into the Content Channel

Fill in the sections like in the screenshot above. I usually only fill in the Description field and leave the “Category field” and “Excerpt” fields blank. I find this plays much nicer with Live Writer.

Go into your templates and open your master template. You’ll need to add the following in your head tag. Just above the </head> element is fine.